OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.
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"Accident Spills Hot Dogs Across Highway, Bystanders Begin Cleanup Efforts With Relish"
"Police Have Begun Grilling Driver For Details"
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4 injured after tractor-trailer crash spills thousands of hot dogs on I-83 in York County
A stretch of Interstate 83 was closed in both directions after a tractor-trailer crash left 1,000 pounds of frozen hot dogs along the highway.Morrissey Walsh (WGAL)
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That feeling when your hometown makes the big-time, but only to be held up as an example of what not to do.
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4[4!3 Nothing less over here, since the second time and I warned them 1st time they forced their way in without any Warrant along with introduction Body-Cam >> Pigz do not come in and my bell is set off.
Yeah they hate me very much now after I sent a Lawyer to that office.
"Our findings suggest a link between malevolent (aversive) personality and conservative political ideology... and that persons with malevolent personality dispositions view political figures with malevolent traits favorably"
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Are you a head of state who doesn't want to release the evidence that you are a sexual predator? Try Throwshitatthewall, by Pfiser...
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"Donald Trump makes perfect sense if you realize that sometime around 2012, he was captured by a foreign intelligence service and programmed to suddenly believe that..."
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Maybe Nothing Ever Really Changes
Concept: Donald Trump makes perfect sense if you realize that sometime around 2012, he was captured by a foreign intelligence service and programmed to suddenly believe that he could never be truly…Blaise's Blatherings
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I feel like I need to reiterate:
Just because you *can* do a thing, doesn't mean you *should* do a thing. Even if it's the hottest new buzzword...
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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’
Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.www.wired.com
Belkin Is Ending Support for Most Wemo Smart Home Gadgets
So you know how a few of us have been yelling for years that buying "cloud-enabled" devices is buying constant uncertainty?
Belkin is ending app and cloud support for most of the brand's Wemo products. Devices compatible with Apple HomeKit, however, can keep working if set up before Jan. 31, 2026. pcmag.com/news/belkin-is-endin…
Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA
Trump Puts Sean Duffy, Ex ‘Real World’ Cast Member, in Charge of NASA
Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.Charisma Madarang (Rolling Stone)
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Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles ‘next week,’ says Elon Musk
TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com)
Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles ‘next week,’ says Elon Musk https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok-is-coming-to-tesla-vehicles-next-week-says-elon-musk/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organicBluesky Social
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SPD Confident They Can Brutalize Minorities without Federal Help
After witnessing the mayor of Los Angeles have to order an unwelcome ICE and the National Guard brigade out of MacArthur Park today, the Seattle Police Department reminded feds that they’re more th…The Needling
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"Police at Milan Bergamo International Airport told Sky News the person appeared to run on to the runway before voluntarily entering the engine."
I can't even begin to imagine what is wrong with a society who won't just say the word 'suicide'. Are we worried Voldemort will hear us, or something?
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Flights suspended after man is sucked into plane engine on runway
Police at Milan Bergamo International Airport told Sky News the person appeared to run on to the runway before voluntarily entering the engine.Sky News
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The Four Horsemen of The Naming Soup Apocalypse are now complete.
(Spoiler: the fourth one is real - see thread)
"In conclusion, we have investigated our own actions and discovered nothing untoward..."
"No, no, komrade Starovoit, I did not say 'You are fired', I told *him* to fire..."
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Russian Ex-Transport Minister Found Dead Hours After Putin Dismissal
Russia's former transport minister Roman Starovoit has been found dead with a gunshot wound in his personal car, just hours after being dismissed by President Vladimir Putin amid mounting corruptionDarren Smith (BritanniaDaily)
We could stop spending trillions on unnecessary military 'superiority', *or* we could save a few million by firing all the people who keep our nation at the forefront of research.
But hey, at least ICE is getting a $72,000,000,000 bump in funding...
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Why old people should have to pass a "how shit invented in the last 50 years works" test before they're allowed to make government-level decisions...
Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites theconversation.com/supreme-co…Supreme Court upholds childproofing porn sites
Kids face risks online, but whether and how the law can protect them is a thorny issue. The Supreme Court weighed in to say states can try with age-gating – essentially requiring ID at the online door.The Conversation
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Source: "Internet" 🫣
Edit: Apparently, the original images are due to Allie Brosh at hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com… . Still don't know who added the text.
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Is the theory here that if you let a child know that a particular other kind of person exists, even if there is no overlap between what defines that kind of person and religion, even if that kind of person is statistically likely to be the same religion as the child, then somehow that teaches the child a different religion?!?!?
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I feel like if you get shot on active duty for the US military, it ought to just be an automatic citizenship, or something...
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U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport from Hawaii
Kunia resident Sae Joon Park, a decorated Army veteran, was given three weeks to return to South Korea, after 48 years in the U.S.Annalisa Burgos (Hawaii News Now)
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That is a whole new level of F'd-UP.
In my opinion anyone who is allowed to serve in The United States military should be made a citizen (nationalized). Whether shot or not they served this country. It should be an automatic. Besides we should not have non-citizens serving in the military, it is a security issue. So when they are vetted and allowed to join it should be an automatic citizenship period.
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Somewhere Barbara Streisand can heave a huge sigh of relief. It will henceforth be known as "the Vance effect."
#JDVance #fascism #couchfucker
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This one paragraph sums up a decade of MS-DOS use for me:
"The original MS-DOS Editor represented a major step forward for Microsoft's command-line text-editing capabilities at the time of its release. Before 1991, DOS users suffered through EDLIN, a line-based editor so primitive and user-hostile that many people resorted to typing "COPY CON filename.txt" and hoping for the best."
Microsoft's relaunch of EDIT for Linux implies that they're relaunching QBASIC for Linuxarstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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Edlin was a MS/DOS compatible version of the Unix ed utility and it was awkward to use. I was very happy to see edit though I was not using it long before I migrated to GNU/Linux and found I preferred vi and later vim which I still use today.
If someone is a basic developer on GNU/Linux I am sure they would find gambas far more useful than qbasic though I do have a soft spot for these nostalgic applications. 😉
So I did build a copy of edit and installed it on my system. 😀
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So I'm reading in the Times that recruiters and HR departments, who for a decade or more have been using AI tools to generate false job postings and manipulate labor-pools, are "Inundated" by an "applicant tsunami" of AI generated resumes and AI-faked confirmation video calls. Apparently, using automated systems to spam an entire industry doesn't result in everyone just shrugging and accepting the situation.
Who could possibly have predicted this...
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So I spent about 3 hours working with an AI to develop an AI prompt optimized for minimal execution time that would tell the AI to identify product data, product claims, and scientific evidence on a few hundred products, cross reference those data and rank products by likelihood of working as claimed.
We're not there yet, but I really like that on our trial run, the same AI that had helped me write the prompt, upon realizing that it was the chosen executor of that prompt, began it's response with, "OK, This is a massive undertaking..."
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Are you using a custom LLM or are you using one out of the box? By custom I mean one you built yourself not just one you trained. The results are going to be very interesting as product claims can rarely be accounted for in product data. Marketers have a way of ... well lying is the only appropriate term I can think of. I would love to hear more about this project as it continues. Please keep posting to keep us up to date.
@Unus Nemo No, I'm experimenting to see how much useful work you can get out of a free, public AI service. I generally start with Grok, then attempt to reproduce on ChatGPT and Claude.
My whole project may come to nothing, in the end, because the damned things keep making up some percentage of the data, even if you spoonfeed all the research materials to it and specifically ask it to use only, and all of the data provided. And they lie about what and why they did what they did at least 80% of the time...
I'm at best only about 80% there. I'm not sure my theory of getting the AI to help me write the prompt will turn out to be helpful...
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